Example sentences of "adding [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In perspective , it is a healthy rivalry , adding spice to the game . |
| 2 | Was it really wise to risk adding burglary to the list ? |
| 3 | The sun became relentlessly hot , adding dehydration to my distress ; I stripped off my pyjamas and restored them to the rucksack . |
| 4 | Nicky , of Falkirk , West Lothian , said : ‘ It was adding insult to injury to see Des 's face on the record cover smiling up at me . ’ |
| 5 | Councils , argues Mr Cawley , are being hit by an unenviable double whammy , thanks to the recession and the Government 's response to it : tighter spending assessments and declining revenue income are adding insult to injury , with ordinary people bearing the brunt . |
| 6 | Of course he was released from hospital and he recovered and of course we we , he , we protested to the hunt and they had the audacity to off to offer him some fifty pounds compensation , which was a adding insult to injury . |
| 7 | ‘ Adding insult to bloody injury ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ That , ’ said Sophie icily , ‘ is adding insult to injury . ’ |
| 9 | Rather than being an act of neglect , this seeming parsimony simply recognise the historical fact of Congress routinely adding money to whatever the president recommends for health research . |
| 10 | If you do not have many outlets , or can not add extra lights , think of adding track-lighting to the ceiling since you can fix as many spots onto a track , trained to as many angles as you think it will take . |
| 11 | A later edition , providing coverage from November 1988 to January 1992 , some 200,000 articles , is now available and a further disc adding coverage to the end of May will be available in June . |
| 12 | Adding insulation to the inner face of exterior walls involves either fixing thermal board ( plasterboard with a rigid foam backing and a built-in vapour barrier ) directly to the wall surfaces with a panel adhesive , or putting up a framework of battens with blanket insulation between them , and adding a layer of vapour-check plasterboard on top . |
| 13 | 1600 , 1604 LIFESPAN Error adding entry to LIFESPAN 1608 , 1612 Authorisation file . |
| 14 | But I have more chance of improving that than knocking 10 years off Gregory or adding speed to Fox . |
| 15 | His ambitions now centred on adding fine-spinning to manufacturing . |
| 16 | You will be able to choose from traditional , elegant , white decor doors , which are popular for bedrooms , or silver mirror doors , which are great for brightening up a dingy hallway or adding light to a small , dark room . |
| 17 | Synthetic chemicals are not intrinsically different from naturally-occurring ones — their basic chemistry is much the same , although there are some novelties ( eg chlorinated hydrocarbons — hydrocarbons are fundamental to life , but adding chlorine to them was a human innovation ) . |
| 18 | Beneath these divisions on policy lay deeper divisions based on economic and financial self-interest , with the prestige of Nyerere as party chairman adding weight to the argument for the status quo . |
| 19 | Analysis of a small Roman plaque with a black patina and gold inlays proved it to be largely copper with traces of silver , gold and arsenic , adding weight to the view that this patination technique was practised in the West as well as the East . |
| 20 | The haunting intensity of Johnny Marr 's echoey guitar cut across a slow paced rhythm to create a sense of evil and Morrissey 's line , ‘ I am human and I need to be loved … just like everybody else does … ’ , only succeeded in adding weight to the darkness . |
| 21 | Horstmeyer says that oil drilling is tied to an 80-year-old principle of brute force — adding weight to rotary drills and using the force of gravity . |
| 22 | Many studies of previous generations have shown that many young people leave rural areas before they even enter the job market , and that these migrants are the most able and motivated ( Rieger , 1972 ; Hannan , 1969 ) thus adding weight to the theory of cumulative causation , as the less able young , the old , and the redundant come to form a greater and greater proportion of the population . |
| 23 | A buy-out would be well beyond the means of the cricket club , adding weight to tonight 's meeting , which will make recommendations to be put to the club 's membership . |
| 24 | SENIOR public health officials in Glasgow are adding weight to a renewed call by the district council for urgent Government action on health problems . |
| 25 | ‘ So you 're adding forgery to your many other dubious talents . ’ |
| 26 | Reactions were terminated by adding EDTA to a final concentration of 50 mM and quick freezing . |
| 27 | These include the Travelling Salesman Problem , the Steiner Tree Problem ( adding flexibility to a minimum cost spanning tree ) , graph colouring , exan timetabling , and thousands of other innocent-looking problems . |
| 28 | There 's the woeful ‘ Move Around ’ and the surging ‘ Misery ’ , adding dimension to their one way ticket to success . |
| 29 | , Hairspray is a versatile styling product — it 's not just for adding hold to a finished look . |
| 30 | Memoirs based on diaries , or the autobiography itself , enable the writer to make use of the diaries for the basic pattern of events , but by adding hindsight to the diaries a much fuller and perhaps more plausible or self-justifying record can be written . |